Fire-extinguisher



H. E. MORRIS.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1.0, 1919.

Patented Nov. 2, 1920.

INVENTOR 20 1' @c 5 I v Al /army) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIE..

HOWARD ELVVOOD MORRIS, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOv THE. MORGAN ENGI- NEERING COMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO.

FIRE-EXTINGUISHER.

Application filed July 10, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HOWARD E. MORRIS, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain uew and useful Improvements in Fire-Extinguishers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in fire extinguishers adapted particularly for use in manufacturing plants.

In the modern manufacturing plants, about the only inflammable part of the building is the wood roof sheathing, and where the buildings are high and the floor space filled with machinery, the roof is inaccessible which makes it diflicult to fight a fire.

All such shops are however provided with overhead traveling cranes, and the object of my invention is to provide an overhead crane with a fire extinguisher forming a fixed part of the crane and located so as not to interfere with the ordinary working of the crane but readily accessible to the crane operator, so that in the event of a fire, the

crane with the extinguisher thereon may be moved to a position, immediately under, it

1ighe fire be in the roof, or over, if it be on the cor.

With this object in view, my invention consists in the parts and combination of parts as will be more fully explained and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a section of a crane girder having my improvement applied to the outer side thereof; Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4.- are views of the housing for the chemical tank and hose basket.

The traveling crane in cgngmercial use is made up of two parallel girders constituting the bridge, secured at each end to a truck which latter travel on an elevated track extending lengthwise the shop. The bridge carries a trolley mounted to travel on the bridge, and the trolley carries a hoist drum and motor.

5 represents a part of one of said bridge girders, and 6 represents a rectangular cage secured to the outer side of said girder pref- Speci'fication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 19-20.

Serial No. 309,897;

'which is made of metal, is preferably of skeleton form as shown,'and is rigidly secured to the girder 5, by the angle bars 7 riveted to the girder 5, and by the braces 8 secured to the lower flange of the girder 5 and riveted to bottom members of the cage 6 adjacent the outer side edge of the latter, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. While I have shown two angle bars 7 and two braces 8 for securing the cage to the girder, it is evident that additional ones may be used if found desirable or necessary.

Located within the cage, and extending transversely thereof at the bottom, are the end plates 9 riveted to the bottom of the cage, and extending between the plates at the ends of the latter are the side plates 10, the said end and side plates being made of angle bars and riveted to the bottom of the cage. These ends and side plates 9 and 10 form a tray for the wooden box 11 which carries the chemical tank 12 and hose basket 13. The top of box 11 is also made-of wood, and is located in the plane of the foot walk 14 which extends from end to end at the outer side of the girder and is used by the crane operator and other workmen in passing from one end of the bridge to the other. The ends of the foot walks adjacent the ends of the cage, are supported by the angle arms 7 which secure the cage to the girder, and also by the angle brackets 18 secured to the ends of the box.

The top of: the box is provided with a hinged door or doors 15, preferably two as shown, located over the hose tray 13 and the adjacent end of the tank 12, so as to render the hose and the manipulative end of the chemical tank readily accessible and it is also provided with a door 16 located transversely over the filling opening in the tank.

The tank 12 is supported at its end trunnions by the bearings 19 on the standards 20 secured to the bottom of the cage.

With this construction, the crane with the fire extinguisher thereon can be quickly moved throughout the building, and a fire starting in the roof, or on the floor of the building can be gotten at quickly and quickly extinguished or p"evented from s-spreading 1. In a fire extinguishing apparatus, the

combination With an overhead traveling crane bridge and a footwalk thereon, of a housing located at the outer side of one of the girders of the bridge, and a tank and hose Within said housing, the said housing and its contents being accessible from the foot Walk of the bridge. a

2. The combination with an overhead traveling crane bridge, of a housing secured to a girder of the bridge out of the path of movement of the crane hoist ropes and carrying a fire'extinguishing apparatus, the said housing being accessible at all times to the operator on the crane.

3. The combination With an overhead traveling crane, of a housing secured to the outer side of one of the girders of the crane and carrying fire extinguishing apparatus, the top of the housing constituting a part of the foot Walk of the crane.

4c. The combination With an overhead traveling crane, of a housing secured to the outer side of one of the girders of the crane and carrying fire extinguishing apparatus, and a foot walk over the housing the said foot wall: having hinged sections immediately over said housing.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HOWARD ELW'OOD MORRIS.

Witnesses: V

C. E. Bnn'ronnrrn, N, O. FETTERS. 

